Monthly Archives: May 2019

Using Hazel In My Daily Workflow

It is no secret that I run macOS. I love the flexibility.  I used to run Linux (Fedora for 4…

By Manny Fernandez

May 24, 2019

Fortigate DHCP and Microsoft Dynamic DNS

Remote branches that utilize Fortigate's DHCP do not update Microsoft DNS servers automagically.  Fortinet does not have a syncing feature…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2019

Administering the Fortigate Firewall with LDAP Credentials

I am a big fan of having a centralized directory of users.  This makes it easy when that serial, crazy…

By Manny Fernandez

May 21, 2019

Route-Map on Fortigate

Often times you need to create a route map on a device to control what routes the device is advertising.…

By Manny Fernandez

May 20, 2019

Best Practice for Creating Fortinet Support Accounts

I cannot tell you how many times I get asked by customers or partners, "The person that registered the products…

By Manny Fernandez

May 18, 2019

macOS and IOS Journaling Solution

I am a big believer of Work Flows and I am always trying out new methods, apps, scripts, etc to…

By Manny Fernandez

May 17, 2019

UPDATED – Certificate Pinning you SSL VPN with Microsoft CA and Fortigate Forticlient Using ‘user’ certificates

Customer wanted to ONLY allow devices that are trusted devices (owned by the customer) to connect using the ‘Full Access”…

By Manny Fernandez

May 15, 2019

Creating SPAN port on Fortigate By: Brent Klespies

Here is a blog post from a friend and colleague Brent Klespies I had a customer wondering how to create…

By Manny Fernandez

May 8, 2019

FortiAnalyzer FortiView not showing data

Great article from a friend (Matt Sherif) of mine on troubleshooting FortiAnalyzer when it is not showing data.

By Manny Fernandez

May 3, 2019

Troubleshooting NAT on Fortigate Firewall

When you want to validate that the Fortigate is doing NAT properly, there are a few things you can do.…

By Manny Fernandez

May 3, 2019

Fortigate / Scrutinizer NetFlow Deployment

Today I had a customer talking to me about Netflow and the Fortigate.  To demonstrate the functionality, I decided to…

By Manny Fernandez

May 2, 2019

Perimeter Switch Configuration with Fortiswitch (Non-Fortilink)

One of the designs I normally do for customers when they purchase Highly Available firewalls is HA perimeter switches.  When…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

Configuring SNMP v3 on Fortigate

When using SNMP to monitor the devices on your network, more especially your firewall, one should not use SNMP v1…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

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